xx, 450 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Europe
Date:
2014
Contents:
Introduction : integrated and multi-scalar approaches to early farmers in Europe / Penny Bickle and Alasdair Whittle -- The future Neolithic : a new research agenda / John Robb -- Some possible conditions necessary for the colonisation of Europe by domesticates / John C. Barrett -- Multi-agent modeling of the trajectory of the LBK Neolithic : a study in progress / Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Jérôme Dubouloz, Richard Moussa, Jean-François Berger, Anne Tresset, Elena Ortu, Jean-Denis Vigne, Robin Bendrey, Stéphanie Bréhard, Dominique Schwartz, Aurélie Salavert, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goñi, Damien Ertlen, Yoann Gauvry, Gourguen Davtian, Marc Vander Linden, Eva Lenneis, Lorette Noiret, Agnès Guillaumont and Martin O'Connor -- Ancient DNA evidence for a homogeneous maternal gene pool in sixth millennium cal BC Hungary and the Central European LBK / Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Victoria Keerl, János Jakucs, Guido Brandt, Eszter Bánffy and Kurt W. Alt -- Settlement burials at the Karsdorf LBK site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany : biological ties and residential mobility / Guido Brandt, Corina Knipper, Nicole Nicklisch, Robert Ganslmeier, Mechthild Klamm and Kurt W. Alt -- Cattle and sheep herding at Cheia, Romania, at the turn of the fifth millennium cal BC : a view from stable isotope analysis / Marie Balasse, Carlos Tornero, Stéphanie Bréhard, Joël Ughetto-Monfrin, Valentina Voinea and Adrian Bălăşescu -- Herding practices in the ditched villages of the Neolithic Tavoliere (Apulia, south-east Italy) : a vicious circle? The isotopic evidence / Mary Anne Tafuri, John Robb, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti, Paola Iacumin, Antonietta Di Matteo and Tamsin O'Connell -- Linear pottery culture household organisation : an economic model / Lamys Hachem and Caroline Hamon -- Framing farming : a multi-stranded approach to early agricultural practice in Europe / Amy Bogaard -- Stewing on a theme of cuisine : biomolecular and interpretative approaches to culinary changes at the transition to agriculture / Hayley Saul, Aikaterini Glykou and Oliver E. Craig -- Life conditions and health in early farmers : a global perspective on costs and consequences of a fundamental transition / Clark Spencer Larsen -- Biographical bodies : flesh and food at Çatalhöyük / Jessica Pearson and Lynn Meskell -- Neolithic lifeways : microstratigraphic traces within houses, animal pens and settlements / Wendy Matthews, Lisa-Marie Shillito, Sarah Elliott, Ian D. Bull and James Williams -- Violence in Neolithic north-west Europe : a population perspective / Rick J. Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- Mass graves of the LBK : patterns and peculiarities / Christian Meyer, Christian Lohr, Olaf Kürbis, Veit Dresely, Wolfgang Haak, Christina J. Adler, Detlef Gronenborn and Kurt W. Alt -- Revealing our vibrant past : science, materiality and the Neolithic / Oliver J.T. Harris -- Pottery, archaeology and chemistry : contents and context / Jessica Smyth and Richard P. Evershed -- Constructing a narrative for the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland : the use of 'hard science' and archaeological reasoning / Alison Sheridan and Pierre Pétrequin -- Doing science in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age : an insider's perspective / John Chapman -- Archaeological science and the Neolithic : the power and perils of proxy measures / Paul Halstead
Summary:
Archaeology and science enable new and creative understandings of Europe's early farmers, answering questions that remain after more than a century of research. The challenge is to integrate multiple lines of evidence, scientific and more traditionally archaeological, while keeping in focus the principal questions that we want to ask of our data.
